I do. Why is it $1 instead of, say, $0.50? What happens if they come back two years
from now and say it has to be $2? This is a "taxation" model of ICANN support and we
DON'T want to go down that road. This type of arrangement gives ICANN an incentive to
In addition, any fees imposed must be non-discriminatory
and related to costs incurred by ICANN.
While operating the root zone is arguably distributed across the
entire underlying user base, that cost is going to be minuscule
on a per TLD basis. It also doesn't account for the fact that
you may have several million hosts under one SLD like AOL.COM
On the administrative side, it's not apparent that any costs
incurred by ICANN have any relationship whatsoever to 2nd level
or 3rd level DNS registrations. Some registries have almost
zip 2nd level registrations, and shove the activity down one
level.
One gets the sense that this Internet tax idea wasn't very
well through through.
--tony
